Automobile construction



Aug. 1933- c. w. VAN RANST 1,923,342

AUTOMOBILE CONSTRUCTION Filed May 31, 1929 3 5) 2t & 1 v

i Imf 91661 A; 1 [517225215 W2 Patented Aug. 22, 1933 v p UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE" AUTOMOBILE CONSTRUCTION Cornelius W. Van Ranst, Auburn, Ind., assignor,

by mesne assignments, to Manning & Co, Chicago, 111., a Corporation of Illinois Application May 31, 1929. Serial No. 367,410

1 Claim. (Cl. 29684) This invention relates to improvements in autothe windshield and depending from the top 2 to mobile constructions and it consists .of the matth rear of the windshield in a drop 8 which closes ters hereinafter described and more particularly off the interior of the visor from the view of the pointed out in the appendedclaim. persons the body 1 of the automobile.

Power actuated windshield wipers are consid- The visor which is hollow includes a front wall 5 ered part of the standard equipment on substan- 9 of desired outline and a horizontal bottom wall tially all passenger automobiles now made. Such 10. In said bottom wall, substantially in align- Wipers include a motor and a wiper arm or blade ment with the positions occupied by persons on and the motor is usually exposed to view due to the front seat of the automobile, are formed 10 the mounting thereof on the windshield. In the openings 11 each defined on three sides by an upmore finely appointed automobiles, this condition Wardly embossed flange l2 and opening at its is objectionable as it detracts from the furnishfourth side through the rear edge of said bottom ings thereof. wall. Associated with each opening is a plate 13 The primary object of the invention is to prothat is removably secured against the flange 12 15 vide such an arrangement of parts, that the so that its bottom face is flush with the bottom wiper motor is concealed from view but is so arface of th wall 10.

ranged as 'to be easily accessible for inspection, Mounted on the top surface of each plate is adjustment and repairs when any one thereof a motor 14 of any suitable kind for actuating a becomes necessary. wiper blade 15; Said motor, as shown herein, is

20 Another object of the invention is to so con of the pneumatic type, and includes a swinging struct the automobile as to provide a hollow, enarm 16 positioned in a notch 17 in the rear edge closed visor therefor in which the wiper motor of the plate and operatively connected to the is located with the wiper blade engaged with the blade. The necessary tubing or conduit for supglass of the windshield. I plying motive fluid thereto may be disposed With- 25 Still another object of the invention is to so in the visor and then pass down one of the corner form the visor thereof that it will house the wiper posts so as to be engaged as with a vacuum de l motor, which is mounted on a plate removably vice on the automobile. secured to the bottom wall of the visor. Should the motor need adjustment, the plate These objects of the invention as well as others, 13 is removed from the bottom wall of the visor 30 together with the many advantages thereof, will so that the motor is easy forc access. After admore fully appear as I proceed with my speci justing the motor, the plate is easily replaced. fication. The construction described permits concealing In the drawing: the motor from view so that persons'riding in the Fig. 1 is a view in front elevation of the windautomobile are not aware of its existence. The 35 shield and adjacent partsof an automobile emdrop board effectively curtains off the interior bodying my improved construction. of the visor.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view as taken While in describing my invention, I have reon the line 22 of Fig. 1. ferred in detail to the form, arrangement, and

Fig. 3 is a detail vertical sectional view through construction of the several parts thereof, the

40 a portion of the windshield and visor on an ensame is to be considered merely as illustrative so larged scale as taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. that I do not wish to be limited thereto except as Referring now in detail to that embodiment of may be pointed out in the appended claim.

the invention illustrated in the accompanying I claim as my invention:

drawing, 1 indicates as a whole the closed body An automobile embodying therein a top, a hol- 45 of an automobile which includes a top 2 and low visor including abottom wall arranged at the upright front corner posts 3-3 therefor. 4 infront end of the top, a member spaced rearwardly dicates as a Whole the Windshield glass bound at from the visor and depending from the top and its top and side margins by suitable framing 5. a windshield having a portion normally arranged The windshield is engaged at its side margins in in the space between said visor and said member 50 grooves 6-6 in the corner posts whereby the respectively, said bottom wall of the visor being windshield may be raised and lowered by suitable adapted to support a wiper blade actuator 10'- mechanism (not shown) to close and open the cated within said visor and concealed from View same. by said member.

7 indicates as a whole the visor forming a con- 55 tinuation of the top and projecting forwardly of CORNELIUS w. VAN RANST. 

